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windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v547/Hydrus.Network.547.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v547/Hydrus.Network.547.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v547/Hydrus.Network.547.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v547/Hydrus.Network.547.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had a good week mostly fixing bugs.

Full changelog: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/changelog.html

highlights

Most importantly, I banged my head against a persistent knot of mpv crashiness this week, and I actually got somewhere. A variety of situations where mpv could fail to load a weird file, which would then lead to hydrus program instability, are now much much better, usually no crash worries at all. Also, there's a little more error handling, stuff like a placeholder image to show instead of the broken file, and an error popup to tell you what happened. I cannot promise that this improves mpv on any system that already had trouble just getting it working (e.g. macOS, some Linux), but I think that heart-skipping moment of 'will it crash?' lag when an mpv load fails should be solved. Let me know how you get on!

Thanks to a user, we have support for 'djvu' files, which are basically an open source pdf format.

If you have a client with hundreds of search pages open, please let me know if your session is any less laggy, particularly if you get bumps of lag every five minutes or so. I rewrote some ugly code and think I eliminated some background CPU overhead for your situation.

There's a handful of smaller fixes and tweaks too, nothing super important, but check the changelog if you are interested.

next week

I'm sorry to say my past couple of months have been pretty low productivity overall. Just life stuff cutting at my time and energy, mostly. I'm going to keep my head down and not change anything drastic, but it has been on my mind, and I regret not being able to push on larger projects. We'll see how the new year goes, I think. Anyway, I expect I'll clear out some more jobs like this next week. I've also been dabbling with the idea of a new 'hash sort' to preserve the sort of a 'system:hash' or downloader highlight in various situations, so I might explore that.